The NGPC "market" in Japan

Originally posted by Matt Semmel:
<strong>I'm just going to import a Wonderswan and try to learn Japanese by playing. Hey, it's working with Spanish, just watch DVDs in Spanish, you'll learn it in no time unless you're completely stupid!</strong><hr></blockquote>

Wow, I'm really impressed. People trying to learn Spanish here . But something intrigues me ... Why you pick Spanish DVDs? Doesn't DVDs appear first in English?

I was thinking nobody wanted anything Spanish, hehe.

Do we have an export market? I didn't know!!

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Originally posted by AOJ:
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Wow, I'm really impressed. People trying to learn Spanish here . But something intrigues me ... Why you pick Spanish DVDs? Doesn't DVDs appear first in English?

I was thinking nobody wanted anything Spanish, hehe.

Do we have an export market? I didn't know!!</strong><hr></blockquote>


Assloads of poeple learn spanish in the USA. Its a very big language to know if you want to succeed in business.
-joseph

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Originally posted by joseph:
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Assloads of poeple learn spanish in the USA. Its a very big language to know if you want to succeed in business.
-joseph</strong><hr></blockquote>

So impressed <img src="graemlins/tickled.gif" border="0" alt="[Tickled]" />
And for success in business? More impressed.

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Originally posted by Matt Semmel:
<strong>I'm not sure Huxley. I do know that the Wonderswan sold better than the XBox, that's for their launch weeks.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Selling 3000 in a month is v.good for Xbox (since the price reduction)...NGPC has done better

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Originally posted by td741:
<strong>Well yes. Spanish helps understanding most countries south of the US. (Well, except for Brazil.)

It's not quite as popular here in Canada but I have taken classes in High School. But that's about 10 years away and it's been a while since I practice. The closest I get to Spanish now a days is listening to my Mecano CD's... and the Ana Torraja (sp?!) disks. I'd like to hear Jose and Nacho's disks too.

I've also taken Japanese and although it's not overtly complicated. It is really different from French, English and Spanish. I've only delved a tiny bit into Mandarin and Malay so I don't have a sense of grammar there.

Anyway, if you want to learn Japanese you much start at least with books. And if you concentrate on learning all of your japanese from games and movies/anime, then you better not strike up a conversation with anyone that's Japanese unless they're your close friends. One of the big complications in Japanese is that there is different levels of politeness. Classroom Japanese teaches you to use respectful Japanese (targetted towards superiors and strangers). This is much safer to learn then Japanese used by two rival characters insulting each other, two lovers discussing their feelings, or even two friends talking on the phone.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Heheh, call me stupid but I have never figured wich foreign language studied english speaker people. Maybe nothing?

Wow, Mecano CD's and Nacho Cano music in Canada!! I think they will be very happy if they can know this. Incredible, I thought this music never came out from Spain (except to Spanish talking countries).

I have tried to learn Japanese too. I have a word diccionary and some tech books in Spanish, but I need to spend LOADS of hours trying to learn. I only can read some hiragana and katakana symbols and some really basic kanjis. Nothing more. And as you say, you can be in real trouble if you don't use the level of politeness requiered in each situation!!

We are going of topic, don't you? But it's funny to see people talking about how they have Spanish related items.

Now a question that intrigues me: What else people know about Spain apart "Torero", "ole", "paella", and "sevillanas"?
Just curious

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Originally posted by Kim _Kaphwan:
<strong>i have to learn spanish half of my family is from cuba, and the other half is mexican. though i hate how mexicans do their spanish juajalote for turkey and calcetinas for socks intead of medias for socks. and i can't remember what turkey is but i know it's different.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Yes, that kind of Spanish is really special. Every place in south america has it's own special words and "slang". <img src="graemlins/glee.gif" border="0" alt="[Glee]" />

Well, I know Neo-Geo games are pretty popular in South America, but apart from beign really bad translated (as same in english happens), they use this kind of regional special words. For the Spanish user, from Spain, it sucks big time to understand some phrases.

But sometimes are very funny. For example, the word "cojer" in Spain is used to say "to catch". But in some places from South America it means "to fuck".
ANd moreless same happens with the word "tirar"; in Spain means "to throw" and South America means again "to fuck".

Heheheh, it's really funny, but hard to understand <img src="graemlins/glee.gif" border="0" alt="[Glee]" />

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